Middle east

by Hannah DARABI (ed.) Thread-sewn pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 24 x 33 cm., 540 pp., approx. 750 b/w & col. ills.,

This portrait photo compendium, 'Mapping. Sitting' by Karl Bassil, Zeina Maasri and Akram Zaatariin cooperation with Walid RAAD contains 905 photographs from Lebanon, Egypt, Iraq, Palestine and Jordan, taken between 1920s and 1970s.

Published in newspaper format, '40 Jahre laif. 40 Positionen dokumentarischer Fotografie' is both an exhibit and a catalog of the exhibition of the same name, which celebrates the anniversary of the German photographers agency from Cologne.

Pb (no dust jacket, as issued), 17,5 x 0,8 x 11,3 inch., 188 pp., text language: English

This out-of-print monograph on the work of the Iraqi photographer Latif al ANI gives a very good impression of international life in the 1960s and 1970s in a metropolis in the Middle East. 112 b/w photographs in almost page-filling square format.

'Hello Camel' by Christoph BANGERT documents the bitter absurdity of war in Afghanistan, Gaza, Darfur, Lebanon and Iraq. He contrasts the clichéd notion of modern war as a fast-paced, dramatic and heroic event with calm and tidy, strange and alien images.

'Rumors of War' by Christoph BANGERT is a personal diary of a former war photographer. He describes his inner conflict between the egoism driven feeling of doing something meaningful and the concern of his family & friends going through hell emotionally.

The book 'Silk Road. 1956-1974' deals with the journeys of Emilia 'Milli' BAU with a wealth of images and text material from three decades. She traveled the Middle and Far East; the pictures and the diary-like texts describe what she saw and experienced.

HC, 15 x 21,5 cm., o.pp., b/w ills, Ltd. to 700 copies

In 'No Land called Home', Wolfgang BELLWINKEL combines pictures taken in Asia meet war and post-war photographs from Afghanistan, the Middle East and the Balkans. He demonstrates a biographically oriented photography - author & global events are a unity.